Hohenlandsberg castle ruins

Hohenlandsberg castle ruins
Hohenlandsberg before the destruction
Creation time :	probably 12th century
Castle type :	Höhenburg, summit location
Conservation status:	Remains of the foundation wall
Standing position :	Barons
Place:	Weigenheim
Geographical location	49 ° 35 '42.1 "  N , 10 ° 17' 52.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 35 '42.1 "  N , 10 ° 17' 52.7"  E
Height:	498  m above sea level NN

The Hohenlandsberg castle ruins are the ruins of a hilltop castle in the southern Steigerwald on the 498 meter high Hohenlandsberg near the municipality of Weigenheim in the Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim district in Bavaria .

history

The castle, presumably founded in the 13th century, was not the ancestral seat of the Franconian - Bohemian noble family of the barons of Schwarzenberg-Hohenlandsberg , but a castle of the Hohenlohe , who exercised their bailiwick from here over the possessions of the Würzburg he Dompropstei around Seinsheim . In the 15./16. In the 19th century, the castle was the administrative center of the Schwarzenberg rulership of Hohenlandsberg, which in Seinsheim and the surrounding area the tithes (= high jurisdiction) and the authorities over the villages of Weigenheim, Seinsheim, Iffigheim , Herrnsheim, the predominant village rulers in Bullenheim , shares in the village rulers in Hüttenheim and Nenzenheim as well as presumably owned the large village of Dornheim .

At the beginning of the 14th century, probably more in the 13th, Hohenlandsberg was acquired or built by the Lords of Hohenlohe and pledged several times from around 1370 until the Lords of Seinsheim-Schwarzenberg bought the castle complex in 1435 . The energetic and violent exercise of power by the Schwarzenbergs, but above all the armed conflicts in the Second Margrave War in 1553/55, in which the mercenary troops of Margrave Albrecht Alkibiades of Brandenburg-Kulmbach illegally stationed on the Hohenlandsberg terrorized the area, brought the castle or ruins over For centuries the reputation of a robber baron castle

Around 1511, Johann von Seinsheim-Schwarzenberg had the castle rebuilt and partially fortified using modern fortification techniques; The casemates that still exist date from this time . During the Peasants' War in 1525 , Hohenlandsberg was captured by the freedom fighters, but remained unscathed. In 1554 the castle was destroyed in the Second Margrave War and then fell into disrepair. The former castle complex still shows remains of fortification walls, casemates, cellars and ramparts. The castle site is a ground monument .

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  Hohenlandsberg Castle Stables

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  Entrance to the Hohenlandsberg castle ruins

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  Wall remains of Hohenlandsberg Castle

literature

• Ruth Bach-Damaskinos, Jürgen Schnabel, Sabine Kothes: Palaces and castles in Middle Franconia . Verlag A. Hoffmann, Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 3-87191-186-0 , pp. 174-175.
• Karl Burckhardt: History of Hohenlandsberg Castle , yearbook of the Historical Association for Middle Franconia 1844.
• Hans Karlmann Ramisch: Uffenheim district (=  Bavarian art monuments . Volume 22 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1966, DNB  457879262 , p. 214-216 .
• Pleikard Joseph Stumpf : Hohenlandsberg castle ruins . In: Bavaria: a geographical-statistical-historical handbook of the kingdom; for the Bavarian people . Second part. Munich 1853, p. 696-697 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Burg Hohenlandsberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hohenlandsberg castle ruins , willanzheim.de

Remarks

1. ^ Max Döllner : History of the development of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch up to 1933. Ph. CW Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1950. (New edition 1978 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Ph. CW Schmidt Neustadt an der Aisch publishing house 1828–1978. ) P. 64.